Gun control advocates are actually pro-gun

10:22 PM,
Feb. 18, 2013

Joseph Dobrian

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Joseph Dobrian
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Not all gun control advocates oppose private ownership of firearms. But plenty of them insist that only police and military personnel should be allowed to carry guns, and that guns are bad by definition.

Many people declare that in an ideal world, no private person would own a gun, even if they admit that such a radical solution would be difficult to implement. Many insist that abolishing private ownership of guns should at least be the long-term objective.

I've heard it posited that my owning a firearm constitutes a public danger even if I have no nefarious intent. The reasoning goes that even ...